Art & Story has recorded an audio interview with Marty Isenberg, the story editor for Transformers: Animated and writer for IDW’s Transformers: Animated The Arrival series. The interview discusses character building techniques, story production and what’s to come in season 3 of Transformers: Animated.
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Auto Assembly 08: Interview with Simon Furman
One lucky fan managed to get half an hour with comic writer Simon Furman at last weekends Auto Assembly 2008.
Interview with IDW’s Chris Ryall and Chris Mowry
Toycyte.com has posted an interview with IDW Editor-In-Chief Chris Ryall and writer Chris Mowry, both of which have been working on the follow up to the Transformers movie, Transformers Movie Sequel: Reign of Starscream.
As well as discussing the movie universe, there are also hints and what to expect in 2009, the 25th anniversary of Transformers.
There are also some nice colour pages from the movie sequel series.
Interview with All Hail Megatron writer Shane McCarthy
Newsarama have interviewed IDW writer Shane McCarthy, who is currently working on the 12 issue series Transformers: All Hail Megatron.
McCarthy confirms that the series will be set a year after the events of The Transformers: Revelations series, and will take the continuity in a new direction. He also poses the ultimate question “How will the rest of the world react to the fall of America?”, which we probably all the know the real answer.
The whole interview can be found here, and if you want a preview of the first issue, check out Transformers: Focus On Decepticons, which is out this week.
Interview with Gary Chalk
A3u have uploaded an audio interview with Gary Chalk. The interview is just over 50 minutes long.
Gary voiced Optimus Primal in Beast Wars and Beast Machines and Optimus Prime in Transformers Armada, Energon and Cybertron.
Interview with Graphic Artist Chris Mowry
Ritcher of IDW’s forums, who is one of the people spear heading the Transformers Mosaic project, has recently interviewed graphic artist Chris Mowry. Chris is currently working on Transformers: The Reign of Starscream, but not as an artist but as a writer.
Most of the interview focuses on the movie sequel comic, and goes into some more detail about the name change of the series, what unanswered questions will be explained, and how the comic fits inbetween the two movies.
Here’s a short extract:
JVR. What can people expect from “RoS?”
CM. We’ll see Starscream as he should have been in the movie. Seriously, I mean, he’s got two lines in the film!? What’s that all about? What we wanted to do was give arguably the toughest character in the film (c’mon, he took on Ratchet AND Ironhide point-blank!) some situations where he could really step it up and when he does, look out. Just think of the ferocity you saw him with at the end of the film, and match that with a contriving mind (he’s smart! he’s smart!). Now throw in a dash of madness, and you’ve got our Starscream.
So what we did for the first issue, was really just go back and reflect on things either glanced over or not explained, and explain them through Starscream’s point of view. How the Autobots got to Earth, how did the Decepticons follow them, how did Starscream fail Megatron the FIRST time? Those kinds of things we’re trying to explain in our way, through his words. Also, we’re referencing the Prequel books (make sure you read the Target exclusive version!) as well. So while some may think that the first issue is nothing but a rehash of what we’ve already seen, it’s not. It’s merely a pathway leading into the story. Oh and it’s not a total retelling, I’ll promise you this for the first book:
– Characters that were not seen in the movie
– Characters that should have been seen in the movie (in our opinion)
– Quite a few easter eggs
Interview with Sari Voice Actor Tara Strong
TFW2005 have managed to get an interview with Transformers: Animated voice actor Tara Strong, who plays Sari Sumdac. As well as discussing the new show, they also talk about here other roles.
Interview with Hasbro Designer Tim Bradley
TF@TM have interviewed Tim Bradley, who worked for Hasbro as a designer in 1998 and 2004 on Transformers, Star Wars and Jurassic Park to name a few. Included in his Transformers portfolio is work on Beast Wars, Beast Machines and Transformers Cybertron.
The full interview can be read here.
Simon Furman Interviewed
TFW2005 have sat down with comic writer Simon Furman and discussed his work on Transformers comics, but also his views on the Transformers movie, and how he feels it should have been done.
TFW2005: (Further along the expanded universe angle) Are there any possibilities to seeing any stories from Transformers past or Transformers future that would have all new characters we have never seen before (no Optimus, no Megatron, no G1 homages, etc)?
Simon Furman: There’s always that potential I suppose, and we are going right back in time for The Thirteen, which features a (largely) new cast of characters we’ll be building from the ground up. Not sure about the future. I don’t really want to do an animated TF movie thing and scrap everything in favour of a new cast. There’s so much potential in the present day cast still to explore in new and different ways. That’s where my creative energies are focused right now.
Interview with Oscar Nominated ILM Animation Supervisor
Animation Supervisor, Scott Benza, who works at ILM, the studio behind the wonderful special effects on Transformers, has been interviewed about his recent Academy Award nomination.
In the interview, he talks about his past work but also how he went about creating the effects to make them believable.
We find out on 24th February if Transformers wins the Oscar.
